Medieval Studies (MEDVL)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.
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- Schedule of Classes - February 12, 2019 8:29PM EST
- Course Catalog - January 26, 2019 2:00PM EST
Classes
MEDVL 1101
Course Description
No description available. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Medieval Saints’ Lives
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Lincoln Hall 117
Instructors
D'Ignazio, S
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Medieval Ecologies
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 303
Instructors
Lawrence, R
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Heroes &Heroines-Mdvl Wrld
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3331
Instructors
Naeve, P
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Gods and Kings in the Middle Ages and Beyond
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Space Sciences Building 105
Instructors
Vinhage, P
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Young Idiots/ Toxic Elders
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 350
Instructors
Waymack, A
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Suspended fr Heaven-Rhetoric of Byzantine Arch
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G22
Instructors
Wolford, T
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
MEDVL 1104
Course Description
No description available. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Walking in Life and Lit
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Greenlee, J
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
MEDVL 1740
Course Description
This course explores the history of imperial China between the 3rd century b.c.e. and the 16th century c.e. with a focus on the following questions: How did imperial Chinese states go about politically ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 1174, CAPS 1740, HIST 1740
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 122
Instructors
Hinrichs, T
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Stimson Hall 206
Instructors
Staff
MEDVL 2170
Course Description
This course explores major texts and themes of the Hispanic tradition from the 11th to the 17th centuries. We will examine general questions on literary analysis and the relationship between literature ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATA 2170, SPAN 2170
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
Garces, M
MEDVL 2655
Course Description
At the beginning of the 7th century, a new religion, Islam, appeared in Arabia and by the end of the century, Muslims had defeated the Byzantines and Persians and created an empire that stretched from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2530, NES 2655, RELST 2655
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 122
Instructors
Rock-Singer, A
MEDVL 3080
Course Description
An introduction to Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and the Icelandic family saga-the "native" heroic literary genre of Icelandic tradition. Texts will vary but will normally include the Prose Edda, the Poetic ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3080
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Rockefeller Hall 132
Instructors
Hill, T
MEDVL 3110
Course Description
In this course, we will read and discuss some of the earliest surviving English poetry and prose. Attention will be paid to (1) learning to read the language in which this literature is written, (2) evaluating ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3110, ENGL 6110, MEDVL 6110
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Hill, T
MEDVL 3315
Course Description
Old Norse is a collective term for the earliest North Germanic literary languages: Old Icelandic, Old Norwegian, Old Danish, and Old Swedish. The richly documented Old Icelandic is the center of attention, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LING 3315
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 262
Instructors
Stefansdottir, B
MEDVL 3750
Course Description
Introduction and training in dendrochronology and its application to archaeology, art history, and environment through participation in a research project dating ancient to modern tree-ring samples especially ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: ARKEO 3090, ARKEO 6755, ARTH 3250, CLASS 3750, CLASS 6755
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall B48
Instructors
Manning, S
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
MEDVL 4002
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 7262, MEDVL 6020, PHIL 4002, PHIL 6020, RELST 4100, RELST 6020
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
MacDonald, S
MEDVL 4103
Course Description
The Survey is designed to introduce students to characteristic genres and discourses of Medieval Latin. The focus will be on style (the genera dicendi), and its implications for audience and genre, from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 4213, LATIN 7213, MEDVL 6103
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Lincoln Hall 316
Instructors
Hicks, A
MEDVL 4180
Course Description
When did anti-Semitism begin? The medieval period invented shocking fictions about Jews—that they killed and ate Christian babies; that they desecrated the Host; that they were the murderers of Christ. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4180, ENGL 6180, JWST 4180, JWST 6180, MEDVL 6180
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 232
Instructors
Zacher, S
MEDVL 4420
Course Description
Through guided readings in Chinese of selected poems of the Tang dynasty (618-907) on various themes and in different styles, students develop the essential analytical skills for reading Tang poetry while ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CAPS 4420, CHLIT 4420
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 348
Instructors
Warner, D
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Additional Information
Minimum three years of Chinese and/or one year of Classical Chinese or permission of instructor.
MEDVL 4626
Course Description
Narratives, particularly sacred narratives, are not static or fixed but rather infinitely flexible and malleable. Subject to multiple retellings—elaborations, modifications, and deletions—stories take ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4626, CLASS 7626, JWST 4626, MEDVL 6626, NES 4626, NES 6626, RELST 4626, RELST 6626
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall B04
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K
MEDVL 6020
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 7262, MEDVL 4002, PHIL 4002, PHIL 6020, RELST 4100, RELST 6020
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
MacDonald, S
MEDVL 6103
Course Description
The Survey is designed to introduce students to characteristic genres and discourses of Medieval Latin. In Fall 2012, the focus will be on style (the genera dicendi), and its implications for audience ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 4213, LATIN 7213, MEDVL 4103
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Lincoln Hall 316
Instructors
Hicks, A
MEDVL 6110
Course Description
In this course, we will read and discuss some of the earliest surviving English poetry and prose. Attention will be paid to (1) learning to read the language in which this literature is written, (2) evaluating ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3110, ENGL 6110, MEDVL 3110
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Hill, T
MEDVL 6180
Course Description
When did anti-Semitism begin? The medieval period invented shocking fictions about Jews—that they killed and ate Christian babies; that they desecrated the Host; that they were the murderers of Christ. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4180, ENGL 6180, JWST 4180, JWST 6180, MEDVL 4180
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 232
Instructors
Zacher, S
MEDVL 6190
Course Description
Chaucer: founder of English Literature. Gower: who that? "Friend of Chaucer"? The most famous non-famous founder of English Literature? A dull moralist, or a brilliant literary interlocutor with Chaucer? This ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6190
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 181
Instructors
Galloway, A
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 350
Instructors
Galloway, A
MEDVL 6626
Course Description
Narratives, particularly sacred narratives, are not static or fixed but rather infinitely flexible and malleable. Subject to multiple retellings—elaborations, modifications, and deletions—stories take ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4626, CLASS 7626, JWST 4626, MEDVL 4626, NES 4626, NES 6626, RELST 4626, RELST 6626
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall B04
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K
MEDVL 7777
Course Description
This course is designed to introduce graduate students to some of the bibliography and approaches available for studying the Middle Ages. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 181
Instructors
MacDonald, S